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Check Your App Permissions Easily last month

As time goes on you’re aware that you’ve given permission to various apps to access information tied to online accounts you have with services such as Twitter, Facebook, Google, Yahoo, Dropbox, Linked In, Instagram and Flickr, and possibly others. If you’re like me you can name …

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Hiding Icons On OS X Desktop With Terminal last month

Do you need a way to hide all the icons on your desktop before you make that screencast, or for another reason? It’s easier than you think, and this little tech tip I am going to share will make your presentation much cleaner with fewer onscreen distractions. Simply go to the applications …

Video: Around The World In A Minute 4 months ago

There can be no better use of a single minute to make you want to travel:

The Game Of Games 4 months ago

Robert Scoble waxes damn near poetic on 40 minutes worth of audio as he describes what he calls the ‘game of games’, which is the way that Facebook and Google will encourage us to increase our involvement with them, as they get to know us ever better. Google is building an …

Dave Navarro’s Generous, Mysterious Offer 5 months ago

Here is a pretty amazing, potentially free offer that has some intrigue surrounding it as well. Dave Navarro is an Internet marketing guy who in my opinion always delivered a lot more value than most do on basically teaching you to translate whatever expertise you might have into products you can …

Holy Robot Swarms, Batman! 5 months ago

You might thing robots will get more capable of performing complex tasks, but the way forward maybe simpler, and more complex… Take a look at this amazing video of footbots, handbots and flying eyebots all working together as a “swarmanoid”, a parallel distributed system, to …

Google Docs To Create Online Surveys? 5 months ago

I have used a couple of WordPress plug-ins to create surveys for my sites in the past, but I just ran across a very fast tutorial on how to use Google docs to create surveys and embed them in blog posts. As the accompanying article points out not only are surveys handy for finding out [...]

The Netflix Of Reading? 6 months ago

Interesting overview of Float, which aims to be the ‘Netflix of reading’ by using what it calls ‘spaceship navigation’ to make it more pleasurable to read everything you consume on all your devices, for a monthly fee.    
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What’s UP With Your Health? 6 months ago

The UP system from Jawbone, consisting of a sensor-filled wristband, will combine data that it records about the amount of sleeping and moving you’ve been doing with information you provide it about what you’re eating, and give you little ‘nudges’ as to what you can do to …
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